James Holland

And it also shows that Semkin has this rule, which is just shoot, shoot, and keep shooting if you see an enemy tank.

And he also has this theory, and he tells all his men, that he who shoots first generally comes out on top because of this factor that the commander will always sink into the turret the moment you're hit.

The moment you fall in the turret, you can't see diddly squat.

Very, very, very little.

A highly trained, highly motivated...

group of tank men who know what they're doing will always best

A force which is in disarray, exhausted, and not coordinated, even if on paper they're in better tanks.

It's one of the great...

British tank engagements of the war, really, in terms of successes to, you know, victory to defeat kind of thing.

You know, 13-0 is an amazing bag.

The following morning, it's B Squadron's turn to take over because it's always a sort of rolling conveyor belt of leads into reserve, into the middle, to the front again.

You know, so it's B Squadron's turn.

They go into the village.

They're clearing the village, and they've just got halfway through the village.

And the leading troop gets knocked out.

Three tanks, boom, boom, boom, just like that by an anti-tank gun that they haven't seen.

John Hanson Lawson, who's the B squadron commander, gets wounded, his tank's burning.

Bill Wharton, who we've come across quite a lot, he jumps out of his tank, goes and rescues him.

Yeah.

And pulls him out.